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Adjectives
(s)
crusty
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curmudgeonly
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gruff
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ill-humored
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ill-humoured
brusque and surly and forbidding
“crusty remarks”
,
“a crusty old man”
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“his curmudgeonly temper”
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“gruff manner”
,
“a gruff reply”
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gruff
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hoarse
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husky
deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
“gruff voices”
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“the dog's gruff barking”
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“hoarse cries”
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“makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky” (Virgil Thomson)
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